April 13, 2026
Morning Run: Ceasefire Holding, U.S. Blockade, Swalwell Drops Out, Grand Central Machete Attack, Chick-Fil-A Shooting, Trump Vs Pope, Britney Spears Rehab and McIlroy Wins Masters
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, April thirteenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: Why did you change your voice? You got a little more high pitched.
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Speaker 4: It was cute.
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Speaker 3: It made me think we were going to have a very pleasant Morning Run.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I've had a very pleasant morning, so I figured I would reflect that in my voice.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome, And I'm TJ. Holmes.
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Speaker 4: I feel like I need to met your enthusiasm today.
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Speaker 3: A lot of it has to do with the weather.
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Speaker 4: We just saw a seven day forecast here in New York that didn't every number started with at least a seven.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's gonna be amazing, at least for the highs.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, So good morning to you wherever you may be. Hope you are getting a good start to your Monday. There is so much going on around the world here in the US, and some updates on some significant stories. But on the Run this morning, we'll be making stops in the Bahamas, at the Vatican, the Straight Oh, Horror Moves Union, New Jersey, California, GUS, the National in Georgia, and as well.
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Speaker 3: At the box office. But Robes Let's start.
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Speaker 4: With what was a very up and down week end of developments with the war in Iran.
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Speaker 1: That's right, So first up, the ceasefire is holding today for the most part.
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Speaker 2: That is the good news.
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Speaker 1: After high level marathon negotiations in Pakistan ended early Sunday with no deal in place to in the war.
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Speaker 4: The Vice President JD. Vans led the US delegation that held face to face talks with Iranian negotiators in Pakistan on Saturday. They say this thing went for twenty one hours, but they came out did not have a deal. So what were the sticking points?
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Speaker 3: Robes?
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Speaker 4: You could almost argue listening to the sides, it sounded like everything was a sticking point. But still what happens with the Straight of Horn moves and Iran, according to reports, not willing to give up many of its nuclear ambitions.
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Speaker 1: All right, So then President Trump announced he was putting a US naval blockade on the Straight of Horror Moves. This would shut off all shipping traffic, even though traffic has been effectively shut off by Iran since the beginning of the war.
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Speaker 3: So it's planned.
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Speaker 4: There still short on details for how this would work, but we do know when the president gave us a specific time this morning ten o'clock Eastern time, they would be blocking it. Quote, the United States to blockade ships entering or exiting Iranian ports again on this day, starting at ten am Eastern.
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Speaker 2: Time, all right.
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Speaker 1: And then the head of Iran's parliament responded to all of those developments this way, enjoy the current pump figures with the so called blockade. Soon you'll be nostalgic for four dollars to five dollars gas. They sure know how to put out the pr tweets.
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Speaker 4: Look, I know you can say whatever about how awful and deadly of a regime they are. They know how to communicate via social media.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do so again you've got Iran's parliament saying this, and then wow. The president's blockade announcement was soon followed by, in fact, a jump in oil prices. They're up about seven percent this morning, definitely above that one hundred dollars a barrel mark. And then we have stock futures trending downward after the president's blockade announcement yesterday.
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Speaker 2: So yes, both of those going in the direction. We don't want them to.
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Speaker 4: Continue on the run on this Monday morning, which was a fast moving story over the weekend. But now Eric Swalwell has officially suspended his campaign for California government.
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Speaker 1: He had been the leading Democrat in that race, but all of that changed late last week when multiple outlets published interviews with a former staffer who claimed Swallwell raped hern Now.
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Speaker 4: He made the announcement about getting out of the campaign with a simple statement on social media on x This is the statement in full, I am suspending my campaign for governor. To my family, staff, friend, the supporters. I am deeply sorry for mistakes and judgment I've made in my past. I will fight the serious false allegations that have been made, but that's my fight, not a campaigns.
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Speaker 1: And we should point out the Manhattan District Attorney has opened a criminal investigation into that allegation of rape by his former staffer. She claims it happened in twenty twenty four in a Manhattan hotel room. And so he's also, by the way, not just facing that criminal investigation. There's another one brewing potentially in California. There's a DHS investigation into his nanny's legal status. And yes, Congress could vote to expel him.
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Speaker 2: This week. It's a lot.
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Speaker 3: It's a lot.
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Speaker 4: Continuing here on this Monday morning run, the man being held in the disappearance of his wife in the Bahamas is either going to be charged with her murder today or he's going to walk out of jail robes. One of these two things we're told has to happen today.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I believe the deadline we were told was seven to twenty pm Eastern time this evening. Fifty eight year old Brian Hooker has been in custody in the Bahamas since Wednesday, after he said his wife Lynette, fell off the dinghy last Saturday night. Bahamian authorities, yes, hap, until this evening before they have to charge him. And look, Brian Hooker has been saying from the beginning that his wife fell in rough seas. He tried to throw a life preserver her way, but lost sight of her in the high winds and rough seas. And it's just a story that not a lot of folks are buying, including his own step daughter.
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Speaker 4: All Right, I want to continue here on this Monday morning run. The next leg will take us back here to New York City, where police shot and killed a man at Grand Central at the subway station. There after the man had attacked three people with a machete.
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Speaker 3: This happened on Saturday, Roes.
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Speaker 2: This is frightening. This is Grand Central, this is the weekend.
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Speaker 1: We have all been there, and look, this is a heavily policed station as well, so it's remarkable and frightening that this happened. The victims were a sixty five year old man, a seventy year old woman, and an eighty four year old man. Thankfully none of them have life threatening injuries. But police say he was acting erratically when they encountered him, even was calling himself Lucifer. He eventually was shot after police say they ordered him repeatedly to put down the machete. He did not, and so they fired grobs.
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Speaker 4: They even have a number on it. They say at least twenty times they shattered him to do so, and he did not comply. He was identified as a forty four year old man by the name of Anthony Griffin. But Griffin but no motive for this attack at all. In Robes we see that sometimes. I think that's the scariest thing about the subway. Sometimes it's just random.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Yes, next up on the run, speaking of random. There was a shooting at a Chick fil A in New Jersey that did leave one person dead and six others injured. This happened around nine o'clock on Saturday night at a Chick fil A in Union, New Jersey. This is just right outside of Newark.
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Speaker 4: And as of this record, and they still don't have arrests in this case. But police believe this was a targeted shooting. They're saying they don't think these folks, whoever is responsible, are a threat to the public in general. Possibly think this was gun or a gang or drug related. They described as scene robes, as masked men came in, even jumped over the counter as if they had a target for what they were going after. But it was a hell of a scene for police to show up to. You got liarly bodies, people laid all out, but again one killed, another six injured in that one. All right, continuing on this Monday morning, Rome, Ha, that's pretty good on this Monday morning, Rome, it's the morning run. But we are going to be heading to Rome here in a moment because that's where the Pope is. And it doesn't even seem right robes to say the Pope versus the president shouldn't be the pope versus anybody. But folks, if you haven't heard yet, the President of the United States has attacked Pope Leo in a way that folks say, it just crosses a line. Also update on Britney Spears, she's checking into rehab. Also an update from the Masters. We got a back to back champ for the first time in a little while, and the box office looked pretty good this weekend. But what we're waiting for is what coming to the box office this Weekend's to hear Laury, we continue on this Monday morning run and Robes. Apparently nobody, and I mean nobody is off limits, including the Pope.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: President Trump has attacked Pope Leo verbally in stunning yet typical Trump fashion. The President even went so far as to take credit for Pope Leo ascending to the papacy in a long true social post that you kind of have to hear to believe.
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Speaker 4: Okay, so some of the stuff he starts off. Pope Leo is week on crime and terrible on foreign policy. Okay, he's not a politician, fine, but it sounds like something he would say to uh is a political upon.
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Speaker 1: Correct correct a week on crime, terrible for foreign policy, says he likes his brother better than he likes.
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Speaker 3: Leoh right, because the brother is maga.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he says he doesn't want to pope who thinks it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. He doesn't want a pope who thinks it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela.
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Speaker 4: And this is the doozy. He took credit for Pope Leo being Pope Leo. He said Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn't on any list to be pope and was only put there by the Church because he was an American and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J.
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Speaker 3: Trump. If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican.
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Speaker 2: Some people would call that delusions.
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Speaker 3: Of Grand George.
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Speaker 4: No, maybe he's right. He had some supporters out there probably saying, yeah, that's probably right.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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Speaker 1: Well, Pope Leo did have a response via the New York Times because he talked about it was a weird rant where he went on saying that the Vatican is fearful and went on this whole campaign on that. So the Pope actually took a very good little chunk of that and responded this way, I have no fear of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do. And when he was asked directly about Trump's comments about him on True Social Leo said this, it's ironic. The name of the site itself say no more.
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Speaker 2: Oh see classy classic. I think so.
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Speaker 4: See that one sounded like a little nudge. That last one feels like he's poking them. Now, Bro, that was a little No.
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Speaker 1: I'm not upset about it. I'm not upset about it at all.
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Speaker 4: But if he gave an opportunity now to sound as if he's attacking the president personally and not through gospel, not through God, don't.
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Speaker 1: You know what.
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Speaker 2: He's a human. He might be a pope, he might be pop, but he is a human.
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Speaker 1: He is. He took a very small opportunity. I don't think he could. He did not go very far.
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Speaker 2: But he did. I appreciated it. That showed a little strength. I liked it.
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Speaker 4: It's good it's really really good, all right, continuing go on the run here now I'm not sure. Well, we're all rooting for Britney Spears, and I guess to hear that she is getting some help unctually, it's comforting to hear, but yeah, she's We're getting worried that she's checking herself into a rehab facility.
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Speaker 1: I think this is the best headline we've seen on Britney Spears in a very long time because it comes five weeks after she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. And look, we've talked about this. I follow her, A lot of millions of people follow her, but it's for social media posting that creates a lot of concern around her mental health. And she had a final post before the announcement was made that she checked herself into rehab on Saturday evening, where she was once again dancing provocatively dressed like she has to cover nipples, where she's dancing alone in her home.
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Speaker 2: She's got smeared eye makeup.
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Speaker 1: It's very similar to the many, many, many videos she's been posting over the years that have caused a lot of concerns for people who love her and are rooting for her.
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Speaker 4: But something again, people I have, people have recommended I follow her over the years, not as a as a matter of entertainment. Yeah, and again we've are we all guilty here looking at this and laughing and not seeing someone who maybe needed to help. Again, her repdid confirmed that she's in a facility. Not exactly sure, uh why or what exactly it's for how long she's going to be there, But the word is Britney Spears is getting some help. So that should be a headline, all right, continuing here sports headline. Over the weekend, the Masters are taking place and we do have back to back champ for the first time in a long time, and only the fourth time in the storied history of this tournament. Rory McElroy won his second jacket.
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Speaker 3: In a row.
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Speaker 4: He struggled for many many years, He had so many close calls the Masters finally won one last year. Rosie went down to his knees crying at the end, and here he is back to back years now. Tiger Jack Nicholas and Nick Foulton are the only other golfers to win the Masters two years in a row.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look it was I mean I laughed because for me, golf and exciting really don't go hand in hand. But he won by one stroke, came back from a six stroke well he lost a six stroke lead. Yeah, so there was drama in all of this. And this is his sixth major overall.
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Speaker 3: So congrats, damn.
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Speaker 4: And but we won't get into he pissed some people off during the tournament with some of his comments.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter. He won. He's got a second green jacket.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations, Congratulations by all right, and congratulations to Super Mario brothers. At the weekend box office, the sequel was number one once again. This is its second weekend dominating. Made sixty nine million domestically this weekend, but six hundred and twenty one million dollars is the global total end counting.
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Speaker 3: It's the highest grossing movie of the year.
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Speaker 4: We're only in the April here, but it was hel Mary is the other that's the highest grossing of the year. But that one is number two at the box office over the weekend, so it's still had as good legs doing. Okay, the drama that's the Zundeia one. Robert Pattinson heard a lot of buzz about that one, something about the ending, and it was a twist and this whole thing. Haven't seen that one yet obviously, and then you, me and Tuscany might have to go see this one. I'm I might have to just to support a black rom coms, to support Reggaejeon, to support Will Packer, who's somebody we've known a long time. It's very important that that movie does well.
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Speaker 1: Reggaejeon aka the Hatty in Bridgerton season one.
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Speaker 4: First season, right, Yes, that was in it. Okay, I don't need to tell that story, but I always remembered him as Hotty and all this he got famous when he couldn't go enjoy his fame. I remember I had to talk to him during COVID and he is sitting just in his living room on the floor, on the couch.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's yeahuber famous watching Bridgerton and.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't walk out the house to enjoy his fame.
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Speaker 2: That's so funny.
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Speaker 3: But now he's getting it now, So good for him.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but it's all about this week's box office marke, and so Friday is the day, but we can usually see these movies Thursday evening.
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Speaker 2: We'll be first in line to see The Mummy.
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Speaker 4: Oh, my this movie is being reviewed in such a way that you have to even if you don't like horror movies, you have to go see what everybody's talking about. This is the guy who did Evil Dead Rise a couple of years ago, Lee Cronin, Right, so he's doing The Mummy, a total reimagining that is supposed to be one of the wildest, scariest, grossest, wonderful horror movies.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna say, yeah, you've been reading all of the early reviews and you say, there a lot of them are expletive written.
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Speaker 4: They can't just f I can't f and believe. Are you efing kidding me? I was falling out of my effing seat.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to absolutely record an efing podcast after we f and see this mother effort.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm kidding. I just I went too far.
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Speaker 3: Didn't I always one step.
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Speaker 2: Just crossed the line of decorum.
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Speaker 1: I apologize, But we will be watching the movie. We will report back. But now we have our quote of the day on this Monday. I love this quote to start your week. I hope you like it as much as I do. All Right, A big part of being happy is being excited, be excited for everything, making a cup of tea, seeing a friend, the next episode of your favorite show, buying something you've been saving up for, sunsets, traveling, falling in love, live a life you are excited about. Okay, okay, doesn't I get you fired up?
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Speaker 4: It kind of does. I went the wrong direction. I went the wrong direction. You can't be excited about any everything, can you? I get the point. Yes, it makes a good point. I took it too literally because I am mister poopy fans this morning.
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Speaker 3: Apparently, no, this morning. I like it. It's good, all right, one more.
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Speaker 1: Time for everybody. A big part of being happy is being excited. Be excited for everything, making a cup of tea, seeing a friend, the next episode of your favorite show, buying some you've been saving up for, sunsets, traveling, falling in love, live a life you are excited about.
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Speaker 4: Excited to see our Yahoo partner is going to be coming by for a shoe today. Very excited about that. Right, yes, the means getting her homework today. She always looked forward to her coming in and doing her homework. Excited it's going to.
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Speaker 1: Be seventy eight degrees today in Manhattan.
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Speaker 4: Excited about that. I'm hungry, looking forward to a good lunch. I'm excited about that. We got a Broadway show to go to this week, we got ready to go see this week in concert, Radio City Music Hall.
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Speaker 3: We have a lot to look forward to.
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Speaker 2: There you go. That's the spirit. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 4: Holmes over here faking the funk about all the stuff I'm excited about.
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Speaker 3: Will Roma, jel Zoo,
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It's Monday, April thirteenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 3: Why did you change your voice? You got a little more high pitched.
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Speaker 4: It was cute.
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Speaker 3: It made me think we were going to have a very pleasant Morning Run.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I've had a very pleasant morning, so I figured I would reflect that in my voice.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome, And I'm TJ. Holmes.
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Speaker 4: I feel like I need to met your enthusiasm today.
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Speaker 3: A lot of it has to do with the weather.
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Speaker 4: We just saw a seven day forecast here in New York that didn't every number started with at least a seven.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's gonna be amazing, at least for the highs.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, So good morning to you wherever you may be. Hope you are getting a good start to your Monday. There is so much going on around the world here in the US, and some updates on some significant stories. But on the Run this morning, we'll be making stops in the Bahamas, at the Vatican, the Straight Oh, Horror Moves Union, New Jersey, California, GUS, the National in Georgia, and as well.
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Speaker 3: At the box office. But Robes Let's start.
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Speaker 4: With what was a very up and down week end of developments with the war in Iran.
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Speaker 1: That's right, So first up, the ceasefire is holding today for the most part.
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Speaker 2: That is the good news.
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Speaker 1: After high level marathon negotiations in Pakistan ended early Sunday with no deal in place to in the war.
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Speaker 4: The Vice President JD. Vans led the US delegation that held face to face talks with Iranian negotiators in Pakistan on Saturday. They say this thing went for twenty one hours, but they came out did not have a deal. So what were the sticking points?
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Speaker 3: Robes?
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Speaker 4: You could almost argue listening to the sides, it sounded like everything was a sticking point. But still what happens with the Straight of Horn moves and Iran, according to reports, not willing to give up many of its nuclear ambitions.
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Speaker 1: All right, So then President Trump announced he was putting a US naval blockade on the Straight of Horror Moves. This would shut off all shipping traffic, even though traffic has been effectively shut off by Iran since the beginning of the war.
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Speaker 3: So it's planned.
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Speaker 4: There still short on details for how this would work, but we do know when the president gave us a specific time this morning ten o'clock Eastern time, they would be blocking it. Quote, the United States to blockade ships entering or exiting Iranian ports again on this day, starting at ten am Eastern.
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Speaker 2: Time, all right.
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Speaker 1: And then the head of Iran's parliament responded to all of those developments this way, enjoy the current pump figures with the so called blockade. Soon you'll be nostalgic for four dollars to five dollars gas. They sure know how to put out the pr tweets.
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Speaker 4: Look, I know you can say whatever about how awful and deadly of a regime they are. They know how to communicate via social media.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they do so again you've got Iran's parliament saying this, and then wow. The president's blockade announcement was soon followed by, in fact, a jump in oil prices. They're up about seven percent this morning, definitely above that one hundred dollars a barrel mark. And then we have stock futures trending downward after the president's blockade announcement yesterday.
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Speaker 2: So yes, both of those going in the direction. We don't want them to.
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Speaker 4: Continue on the run on this Monday morning, which was a fast moving story over the weekend. But now Eric Swalwell has officially suspended his campaign for California government.
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Speaker 1: He had been the leading Democrat in that race, but all of that changed late last week when multiple outlets published interviews with a former staffer who claimed Swallwell raped hern Now.
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Speaker 4: He made the announcement about getting out of the campaign with a simple statement on social media on x This is the statement in full, I am suspending my campaign for governor. To my family, staff, friend, the supporters. I am deeply sorry for mistakes and judgment I've made in my past. I will fight the serious false allegations that have been made, but that's my fight, not a campaigns.
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Speaker 1: And we should point out the Manhattan District Attorney has opened a criminal investigation into that allegation of rape by his former staffer. She claims it happened in twenty twenty four in a Manhattan hotel room. And so he's also, by the way, not just facing that criminal investigation. There's another one brewing potentially in California. There's a DHS investigation into his nanny's legal status. And yes, Congress could vote to expel him.
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Speaker 2: This week. It's a lot.
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Speaker 3: It's a lot.
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Speaker 4: Continuing here on this Monday morning run, the man being held in the disappearance of his wife in the Bahamas is either going to be charged with her murder today or he's going to walk out of jail robes. One of these two things we're told has to happen today.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I believe the deadline we were told was seven to twenty pm Eastern time this evening. Fifty eight year old Brian Hooker has been in custody in the Bahamas since Wednesday, after he said his wife Lynette, fell off the dinghy last Saturday night. Bahamian authorities, yes, hap, until this evening before they have to charge him. And look, Brian Hooker has been saying from the beginning that his wife fell in rough seas. He tried to throw a life preserver her way, but lost sight of her in the high winds and rough seas. And it's just a story that not a lot of folks are buying, including his own step daughter.
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Speaker 4: All Right, I want to continue here on this Monday morning run. The next leg will take us back here to New York City, where police shot and killed a man at Grand Central at the subway station. There after the man had attacked three people with a machete.
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Speaker 3: This happened on Saturday, Roes.
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Speaker 2: This is frightening. This is Grand Central, this is the weekend.
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Speaker 1: We have all been there, and look, this is a heavily policed station as well, so it's remarkable and frightening that this happened. The victims were a sixty five year old man, a seventy year old woman, and an eighty four year old man. Thankfully none of them have life threatening injuries. But police say he was acting erratically when they encountered him, even was calling himself Lucifer. He eventually was shot after police say they ordered him repeatedly to put down the machete. He did not, and so they fired grobs.
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Speaker 4: They even have a number on it. They say at least twenty times they shattered him to do so, and he did not comply. He was identified as a forty four year old man by the name of Anthony Griffin. But Griffin but no motive for this attack at all. In Robes we see that sometimes. I think that's the scariest thing about the subway. Sometimes it's just random.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: Yes, next up on the run, speaking of random. There was a shooting at a Chick fil A in New Jersey that did leave one person dead and six others injured. This happened around nine o'clock on Saturday night at a Chick fil A in Union, New Jersey. This is just right outside of Newark.
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Speaker 4: And as of this record, and they still don't have arrests in this case. But police believe this was a targeted shooting. They're saying they don't think these folks, whoever is responsible, are a threat to the public in general. Possibly think this was gun or a gang or drug related. They described as scene robes, as masked men came in, even jumped over the counter as if they had a target for what they were going after. But it was a hell of a scene for police to show up to. You got liarly bodies, people laid all out, but again one killed, another six injured in that one. All right, continuing on this Monday morning, Rome, Ha, that's pretty good on this Monday morning, Rome, it's the morning run. But we are going to be heading to Rome here in a moment because that's where the Pope is. And it doesn't even seem right robes to say the Pope versus the president shouldn't be the pope versus anybody. But folks, if you haven't heard yet, the President of the United States has attacked Pope Leo in a way that folks say, it just crosses a line. Also update on Britney Spears, she's checking into rehab. Also an update from the Masters. We got a back to back champ for the first time in a little while, and the box office looked pretty good this weekend. But what we're waiting for is what coming to the box office this Weekend's to hear Laury, we continue on this Monday morning run and Robes. Apparently nobody, and I mean nobody is off limits, including the Pope.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: President Trump has attacked Pope Leo verbally in stunning yet typical Trump fashion. The President even went so far as to take credit for Pope Leo ascending to the papacy in a long true social post that you kind of have to hear to believe.
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Speaker 4: Okay, so some of the stuff he starts off. Pope Leo is week on crime and terrible on foreign policy. Okay, he's not a politician, fine, but it sounds like something he would say to uh is a political upon.
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Speaker 1: Correct correct a week on crime, terrible for foreign policy, says he likes his brother better than he likes.
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Speaker 3: Leoh right, because the brother is maga.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he says he doesn't want to pope who thinks it's okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. He doesn't want a pope who thinks it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela.
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Speaker 4: And this is the doozy. He took credit for Pope Leo being Pope Leo. He said Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn't on any list to be pope and was only put there by the Church because he was an American and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J.
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Speaker 3: Trump. If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican.
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Speaker 2: Some people would call that delusions.
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Speaker 3: Of Grand George.
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Speaker 4: No, maybe he's right. He had some supporters out there probably saying, yeah, that's probably right.
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Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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Speaker 1: Well, Pope Leo did have a response via the New York Times because he talked about it was a weird rant where he went on saying that the Vatican is fearful and went on this whole campaign on that. So the Pope actually took a very good little chunk of that and responded this way, I have no fear of the Trump administration or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do. And when he was asked directly about Trump's comments about him on True Social Leo said this, it's ironic. The name of the site itself say no more.
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Speaker 2: Oh see classy classic. I think so.
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Speaker 4: See that one sounded like a little nudge. That last one feels like he's poking them. Now, Bro, that was a little No.
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Speaker 1: I'm not upset about it. I'm not upset about it at all.
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Speaker 4: But if he gave an opportunity now to sound as if he's attacking the president personally and not through gospel, not through God, don't.
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Speaker 1: You know what.
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Speaker 2: He's a human. He might be a pope, he might be pop, but he is a human.
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Speaker 1: He is. He took a very small opportunity. I don't think he could. He did not go very far.
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Speaker 2: But he did. I appreciated it. That showed a little strength. I liked it.
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Speaker 4: It's good it's really really good, all right, continuing go on the run here now I'm not sure. Well, we're all rooting for Britney Spears, and I guess to hear that she is getting some help unctually, it's comforting to hear, but yeah, she's We're getting worried that she's checking herself into a rehab facility.
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Speaker 1: I think this is the best headline we've seen on Britney Spears in a very long time because it comes five weeks after she was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. And look, we've talked about this. I follow her, A lot of millions of people follow her, but it's for social media posting that creates a lot of concern around her mental health. And she had a final post before the announcement was made that she checked herself into rehab on Saturday evening, where she was once again dancing provocatively dressed like she has to cover nipples, where she's dancing alone in her home.
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Speaker 2: She's got smeared eye makeup.
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Speaker 1: It's very similar to the many, many, many videos she's been posting over the years that have caused a lot of concerns for people who love her and are rooting for her.
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Speaker 4: But something again, people I have, people have recommended I follow her over the years, not as a as a matter of entertainment. Yeah, and again we've are we all guilty here looking at this and laughing and not seeing someone who maybe needed to help. Again, her repdid confirmed that she's in a facility. Not exactly sure, uh why or what exactly it's for how long she's going to be there, But the word is Britney Spears is getting some help. So that should be a headline, all right, continuing here sports headline. Over the weekend, the Masters are taking place and we do have back to back champ for the first time in a long time, and only the fourth time in the storied history of this tournament. Rory McElroy won his second jacket.
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Speaker 3: In a row.
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Speaker 4: He struggled for many many years, He had so many close calls the Masters finally won one last year. Rosie went down to his knees crying at the end, and here he is back to back years now. Tiger Jack Nicholas and Nick Foulton are the only other golfers to win the Masters two years in a row.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look it was I mean I laughed because for me, golf and exciting really don't go hand in hand. But he won by one stroke, came back from a six stroke well he lost a six stroke lead. Yeah, so there was drama in all of this. And this is his sixth major overall.
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Speaker 3: So congrats, damn.
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Speaker 4: And but we won't get into he pissed some people off during the tournament with some of his comments.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter. He won. He's got a second green jacket.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations, Congratulations by all right, and congratulations to Super Mario brothers. At the weekend box office, the sequel was number one once again. This is its second weekend dominating. Made sixty nine million domestically this weekend, but six hundred and twenty one million dollars is the global total end counting.
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Speaker 3: It's the highest grossing movie of the year.
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Speaker 4: We're only in the April here, but it was hel Mary is the other that's the highest grossing of the year. But that one is number two at the box office over the weekend, so it's still had as good legs doing. Okay, the drama that's the Zundeia one. Robert Pattinson heard a lot of buzz about that one, something about the ending, and it was a twist and this whole thing. Haven't seen that one yet obviously, and then you, me and Tuscany might have to go see this one. I'm I might have to just to support a black rom coms, to support Reggaejeon, to support Will Packer, who's somebody we've known a long time. It's very important that that movie does well.
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Speaker 1: Reggaejeon aka the Hatty in Bridgerton season one.
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Speaker 4: First season, right, Yes, that was in it. Okay, I don't need to tell that story, but I always remembered him as Hotty and all this he got famous when he couldn't go enjoy his fame. I remember I had to talk to him during COVID and he is sitting just in his living room on the floor, on the couch.
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Speaker 1: Everybody's yeahuber famous watching Bridgerton and.
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Speaker 3: Couldn't walk out the house to enjoy his fame.
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Speaker 2: That's so funny.
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Speaker 3: But now he's getting it now, So good for him.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but it's all about this week's box office marke, and so Friday is the day, but we can usually see these movies Thursday evening.
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Speaker 2: We'll be first in line to see The Mummy.
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Speaker 4: Oh, my this movie is being reviewed in such a way that you have to even if you don't like horror movies, you have to go see what everybody's talking about. This is the guy who did Evil Dead Rise a couple of years ago, Lee Cronin, Right, so he's doing The Mummy, a total reimagining that is supposed to be one of the wildest, scariest, grossest, wonderful horror movies.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna say, yeah, you've been reading all of the early reviews and you say, there a lot of them are expletive written.
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Speaker 4: They can't just f I can't f and believe. Are you efing kidding me? I was falling out of my effing seat.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna have to absolutely record an efing podcast after we f and see this mother effort.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm kidding. I just I went too far.
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Speaker 3: Didn't I always one step.
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Speaker 2: Just crossed the line of decorum.
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Speaker 1: I apologize, But we will be watching the movie. We will report back. But now we have our quote of the day on this Monday. I love this quote to start your week. I hope you like it as much as I do. All Right, A big part of being happy is being excited, be excited for everything, making a cup of tea, seeing a friend, the next episode of your favorite show, buying something you've been saving up for, sunsets, traveling, falling in love, live a life you are excited about. Okay, okay, doesn't I get you fired up?
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Speaker 4: It kind of does. I went the wrong direction. I went the wrong direction. You can't be excited about any everything, can you? I get the point. Yes, it makes a good point. I took it too literally because I am mister poopy fans this morning.
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Speaker 3: Apparently, no, this morning. I like it. It's good, all right, one more.
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Speaker 1: Time for everybody. A big part of being happy is being excited. Be excited for everything, making a cup of tea, seeing a friend, the next episode of your favorite show, buying some you've been saving up for, sunsets, traveling, falling in love, live a life you are excited about.
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Speaker 4: Excited to see our Yahoo partner is going to be coming by for a shoe today. Very excited about that. Right, yes, the means getting her homework today. She always looked forward to her coming in and doing her homework. Excited it's going to.
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Speaker 1: Be seventy eight degrees today in Manhattan.
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Speaker 4: Excited about that. I'm hungry, looking forward to a good lunch. I'm excited about that. We got a Broadway show to go to this week, we got ready to go see this week in concert, Radio City Music Hall.
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Speaker 3: We have a lot to look forward to.
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Speaker 2: There you go. That's the spirit. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 4: Holmes over here faking the funk about all the stuff I'm excited about.
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Speaker 3: Will Roma, jel Zoo,